On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com>wrote:
> It's worth mentioning that Turing did not intend his test to imply that > machines could think, only that the closest we could come would be to > construct machines that would be good at playing The Imitation Game. > No you are entirely incorrect, that is not worth mentioning. There is no difference between arithmetic and simulated arithmetic and no difference between thinking and imitation thinking. > I have used the example of a trashcan lid in a fast food place that says > THANK YOU. > And when a employee of a fast food restaurant says "THANK YOU" to the 47'th customer for the 47'th time in the last hour he puts about as much thought into the message as the trash can did. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
